Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1918 — BUILD “FABRICATED VESSELS” [ARTICLE]

BUILD “FABRICATED VESSELS”

Component Parts of British Ships Made Inland and Assembled on Coast. London. —“Fabricated” vessels are one of the latest and most interesting developments of Great Britain’s shipbuilding drive. A. fabricated ship is one whose component parts are manufactured in other than shipbuilding yards, usually in plants inland. The new fabricated ship is larger than most of the standard ships and there is not a curved frame in it. In fabrication of ships the aim was to increase speed of production and also to utilize -for shipbuilding purposes such plants as bridge-building yards and land engine factories. It is expected that ships of the new type soon will materially increase the tonnage output.